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Mets.com has posted a new mini site that allows fans to learn more about ticket offerings at Citi Field next season.
Also, at Baseball Fever, a poster named islandxtreme26 has posted new photos from inside Citi Field, which you can see by, clicking here.
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Promenade here I come.
I was thinking more along the lines of the Empire Suits. Hey. Go big or go Home.
Now let’s see… that will cost me… my marriage.
wait I am not married…
does anybody know the pricing for the PROMENADE SECTION? i didn’t see it on the website.
OMG that website looks terrible!!
Which one? The Domino’s Pizza one?
The Citi Field’s mini site. But that logo is more or equally terrible. I saw that logo few months ago, and I couldn’t believe it.
seventy five dollars a seat to sit in the outfield!
With the stadium having a very similar layout to Turner Field I can tell you that Promenade is definitely not a bad seat if you are in the lower section, those are probably at least 40 bucks/per as well though, being that they’re 30 down here
where did you see this price?
i couldnt find it anyway
thx.
It’s a real shame that there is a section called Ebbets, but no section called Shea. The problem with Citifield is that the Mets owner has more nostalgia and passion for the team that left 50 years ago than he has for the team he owns. So in every respect this stadium will be more focused on his memory of the Dodgers than any feelings his fans have for the Mets and their history – except for the Apple which fan sentiment forced him to bring over.
Don’t you think Shea has gotten enough Props over the last 40 or so years?
When you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s better just to keep your mouth shut.
The Apple was always being recreated at Citi Field, long before ‘fan sentiment’
The Mets were built from the Dodgers and the Giants, but they aren’t going to play at the Citi. There banners, their players, won’t be honored there. ‘86, and ‘69 and hopefully ‘08 will be there though. He’s paying tribute to the old teams in the most superficial way possible, the facade outside and the names of seating.
And btw, that site doesn’t have prices/categories for the regular seating, which theoretically has to be under $75 then.
Thank you for some sanity +1
You are giving good advice. When you don’t know what you are talking about you might want to not say anything. I thing all of the supporters at SaveTheApple.com would strongly disagree with your uninformed comments about the Apple. In any case, the Apple is a new thing, only around since the 80’s. In twenty years you will be nostalgic for Shea (warts tend to fade over time), and wonder why there is so little flavor of Shea in the new building.
SavetheApple.com hasn’t been around that long. Since the Citi Field Experience was put in Shea over a year ago, they’ve shown a place for the Apple at the Citi. Which means they must’ve decided it well before that to code it into the design.
Besides, they want the same old apple, which they’re not getting. so guess their sentiments didn’t go that far.
I’ll be a little nostalgic for Shea, just because it has memories, but I wouldn’t trade Citi field to go back there. Shea is a dump. There are puddles everywhere, the food sucks, the seats sucks, their is no place to walk around and there is no storage so they’re ocnstantly pushing big carts of food and garbage through the concourses. You miss half the game trying to get food or cram into the bathrooms.
There will be plenty of flavor of Shea, like the retired 41/Shea like the banners, like the team itself. And just because they’re not planning on a huge Shea thing now, doesn’t mean they can’t in the future. They could rename the seats, they could erect a statue or monument. They oculd rename all fries Shea Fries..who knows.
Ceetar,
You are correct about the apple, but people have apoint about Wilpon honoring the Dodgers and even the Giants history more than the Mets. Names like Ebbets Club, Coogan’s Ladning, the Orchard, etc, etc for so many features of the ballpark. Why?
I mean, I think everybody acknowledges that honoring Jackie with the rodunda is appropriate for teh NY NL team, even if it is jarring to see a guy in a dodger uni in the grand entrance of a Mets stadium. But, is Ebbets Club, Coogan’s Landing and the Orchard really necessary? Why not name such features for the nearly 50 years of Mets history – use names like Seaver, Koosman, Agee, Gil (heck, Wilpon can tell himself it is for the Dodgers), Casey, Rusty, Mookie, Keith, Shea, Jane Jarvis, Bob Murphy (for more than a plaque nobody sees at the radio booth), etc, etc?
The slighting of Mets history in favor of the history of two teams that abandoned NYC is insulting to Mets fans and needs to be remedied, sooner or later.
let’s be honest. casey stengel is more a yankee than he was a met. he won championships as a yankee skipper and has the most losses in a season all-time with the mets.
True enough – but Ebbets, Coogan’s Landing and the Orchard are far more Dodgers/Giants than Mets. Don’t do Casey – use Mookie’s Picnic Area out in CF or Agee’s Landing, or Seaver’s Bridge over the bellpens, or how about Shea Club instead of Ebbets Club to honor the man most responsible for there even being a Mets franchise?
I don’t really care whose names you use at Citi, but make sure they are from METS history.
im glad i am not the only one who thinks all of these Dodger/Giant refrences in the new park are both idiotic and degrading to Mets fans… hey wilpons how about having some pride in your own franchise….if you love the Dodgers so much…sell the mets and go buy the team in LA !!!
As far as I know, Mets have called Polo Grounds and Shea Stadium home. Ebbets ? Never.
Mr. Ceetar, there will be at least one honor for a Brooklyn Dodgers player. The main rotunda is named the Jackie Robinson Rotunda – hard to give a bigger honor than that.
Good point,
ON A SIDE NOTE i WILL SAY THAT THE TEAM I IDENTIFY WITH FROM THE GLORY YEARS OF BASEBALL IS THE BROOKLYN DODGERS.
I’M 27, SO ITS NOT LIKE I KNOW THEM FIRST HAND. BUT THE UNDERDOG BUMS, I JUST LOVE THAT.
PLUS, IF YOU HAVENT SEEN THE HBO SPECIAL ON THE BROOKLYN DODGERS, YOUR MISSIN OUT.
I agree, and the Dodgers deserve a nice museum in Brooklyn – not at the Mets stadium. Features at Citi should be named for Mets players and others from Mets history – not for Brooklyn Dodgers or NY Giants.
While I like what the Dodgers did in Brooklyn, gipper it the nail on the head. Citi should celebrate the history of the team that actually will play there. Maybe have a section for the Dodgers, but not so much that it overshadows the Mets.
WHAT DID YOU SAY? I COULDN’T HEAR!
Oh please. Is it so painful for people to read in caps? Geez. (not that I type that way, but still…)
To the real point: damn right, Gipper. Sure, I am a Mets fan now because my dad was a Dodgers fan way back when. But Citi should definitely be about the Mets, and honor our most cherished players, and I seriously hope that they do so more than any nods to other teams that moved elsewhere.
Agreed, Mr. Gee. Sadly, so far they aren’t (see: Robinson Rotunda, Ebbets Club, Coogan’s Landing, The Orchard picnic area, The East Side stands). That is Dodgers x2, Polo Grounds/Giants x2, and a geographic part of Manhattan – not a Met among them.
The rotunda is fine – Jackie deserves all the memorials possible. But the rest? C’mon Freddy, the Mets have a history with some great players and some loveable names/characters – be proud of it.
This is an issue I wish Metsblog would make a bigger deal ot of, in order to express the thoughts of the fans.
There’s nothing “underdog” about CitiField, unless you’re comparing it to the bloated structure going up across town. It’s like calling a rich guy an underdog because he’s rivals with a super-rich guy.
Like MJ going to breakfast with Bill Gates. As I wrote that, Bill gates made another million $.
Wow, Shea is all grown up. What a difference Citi field is going to be.
I’m still a little mixed about my feelings concerning the new park, but that being said the rotunda looks really good.
yeah, I peeked over the edge of the right field stands at Shea into the rotunda the other day. I’m excited.
Does anyone know what the deal is with the outfield fence?
It looks really bizarre- high in some spots, lower in others.
Where will Endy be able to leap up to steal homeruns?
Hopefully for another team :)
jk
any season ticket holder gotten a call yet?
just called the ticket office they said they are sending out packets in the mail today with pricing and seating options…look out for it sometime next week.
thank you kind sir
Some ppl who own field level seats already got a bill. 2009 will cost them twice as much at 2008. 36 to 72 for season tickets.
apparently they are doing this by sections. rumor has it that loge reserves will go up about 10%.
any idea how much upper reserve will be going up by?
no i dont.
I doubt there will be a seat in the house that will go up only 10%. I expect a minimum of 25%.
no way anything goes up 10. and if they are chasing field level season ticket holders up to the excelsior club seats then anyone with reserved seats is getting pushed to upper deck reserves behind current field, loge, mezz and upper box holders. that is why pricing out the ‘concourse’ to corporations only is going to hurt the rest of season ticket holders
Citi field: don’t bother, you can’t afford it.
This is the first I’ve seen of the bridge over the bullpens. I like it. Can’t tell if both pens are there or just one though. Anyone know?
If anyone did not expect the tickets to be flat rate fee the first year or two they are kidding themselves.
But I will say this, being that is seems a TON of brokers bought season packages for Shea this year, that or fans are happy to miss 5 out of 7 games on $70+ ticket prices, I am not convinced that this stadium is going to be packed to the gills every night.
Opening day yes, first several weekends yes, but it is not hard to imagine some capacity crowd announcements even next year when 8,000 or more people are disguised as seats.
It will be interesting.
Brokers bought in droves this year. The supply on Stub Hub quadrupled this year with brokers trying to dump ass seats.
Anyway, I saw an invoice today from someone at work. There $38k seats went up to $72k. They had 4 seats 6 rows up behind home at Shea.
I have Outer Loge Box seasons with 4 others and expect to pay 50% more next year for my seats. Not happy about it, but will likely suck it up for a few years.
THIS IS DISGUSTING.
I am glad I moved to Atlanta, where I can watch a Mets game for under $20, parking included ($6 on many days in the upper deck).
And how is it that a RITSY level that sells seats at $175 called “Ebbetts?” Ebbetts was all about the average working joe; it was a neighborhood park. This incarnation of “Ebbetts” is a corporate monster.
Were you really expecting anything else though?
At least there arent seat licenses..they’ve been talking about that with the new Giants Stadium…that would have been a disaster…
you might want to slow down on that. you never know what the future has in store.
the giants fans are crying now since it’s going to be the elite going to the games.
somewhat similar to CBP, but the upper deck seems to be 1 unit not 2, and not as high.
For reference, top tier seats (400 level, on th einfiled) at CBP go for $24 (summer rates), so it is quite possible that an upper (promenade) reserved on the infield will be in the $40 range.
Actually, isn’t that about what an upper box is?
I can’t imagine how much the decent field level seats will be. For opening day, I sat in loge box behind 1B (where the loge meets the field), and those babies were $117.
Supply and demand my friends… supply and demand.
If i hear one more person say supply and demand I’m going to punch a hole in something… everyone took high school economics we know…
Baseball is a monopoly in EVERY respect and anyone who understands economics beyond the point of being able to say “it’s supply and demand” can tell you that paying baseball players like CEO’s of fortune 500 companies is stupidity and absolutely awful for the economy.
So….. instead of saying “it’s just supply and demand oh well” do something like write to your congressman and tell them it is unacceptable the way they are systematically pricing out the middle class and that they need to do something about it or revoke the antitrust exemptions and prosecute them for price gouging! (and so you know where I’m coming from I will still be able to afford to go to games, but the days where the average couple of kids could buy upper deck tickets to a Sunday afternoon game, like my dad used to do growing up in Jersey right outside the city, are long gone and for a game that is supposed to be about the kids that is sad.
How many upper-level sports economics classes have you taken maddog?
There is too much to get into on this board but seriously if you are against the high prices and what players get paid then stop supporting it! The customer sets the prices and if people are willing to do it then they will. It is not rocket science. I don’t care about anti-trust laws and this and that because again if the DEMAND was not there for the sport those would not be there.
Yes, of course if people weren’t willing to pay the obscene prices they wouldn’t be able to charge them, HOWEVER, in a city of so many people (many, many, of which are millionaires), and for a form of entertainment that is only offered in one place (or if you include the yankees two) it is easy to see why they are able to charge so much but that doesn’t make it right or fair for the average fan.
You are wrong about one thing though, in a capitalist society, for most businesses, it is not what people are willing to pay that determines price but rather it is competition. And for businesses that do not have much competition (utilities, etc.) they are regulated (maybe not very well but regulated they are). Why not the same with baseball is all I am asking…
Lol. If people weren’t willing to pay obscene ticket prices, ticket prices wouldn’t be so obscene. Millions of Americans can’t afford health insurance but we’re supposed to ask Congress to do something about baseball ticket prices.
True that brothhhaa
No you are right, there are so many much larger issues for congress to deal with that it makes baseball ticket prices and player’s salaries seem laughable but last time I checked it was because of congress do nothing (or worse the wrong thing) that those problems exist in the first place
you don’t like high ticket prices, don’t ask the mets to sign mark teixeira, cc sabathia, etc..stay home and watch the games on sny, don’t go to the games.
complaining on metsblog does absolutely nothing if you’re still willing to pony up the money for a johan jersey and wait outside early in the morning for a shot at subway series tix.
WOW… what is that I hear? Derp-a-derp? Go back and reread what I said and realize everything you just said is completely irrelevant to what I was talking about..
My points were people like teixeira, sabathia, etc. shouldn’t be getting $100 million contracts to begin with, that there will always be enough people at games in NY to make boycotting irrelevant (and since I live upstate I only go to about 5 games a year anyway), and more than anything that if you agree something needs to be done about ticket prices/player salaries to DO something productive (not simply “complaining on metsblog” as you say I am doing or staging your own personal silent boycotts as you suggest that mean NOTHING) like writing to and getting the attention of people that have the power to do something.
this is ridiculous…the cheapest seat in the field level is $125? currently outer field boxes average $52 a ticket for season ticket holders. 150% increase for outer field boxes will push all of those ticket holders upstairs which is B/S. I understand jacking up the premium seats behind home plate and on the infield to yyankee stadium prices but why kill all the people who have outer field boxes which, while more expense then reserve seats and upper boxes, were not strictly corporate tix. This is not going to go over well
Many of those Shea outer field box seats are far worse than a seat upstairs at Citi.
It like some of you all have never been to one of the newer parks. haveing been to PNC, Safeco, Petco, Chase, and several other newer stadia, I can assure you that “upper deck” at Citi is going to have some phenomenal seats and all the seats will be better than at Shea/
i’ve been to citizens bank, the jake, comerica and miller park in the last 3 seasons so i do know what the new stadiums are like. while seats in the upper deck will for sure be better than shea, i like being down in field level, and there is a reason why field level seats are priced higher than the upper deck…b/c they’re better seats. i bought an outer field box specifically for that reason. i understand raising premium seats that corporations (like mine) buy but the outer field boxes at shea were not premiums seats. there are some 4000-5000 current season ticket holders on outer field boxes who are now looking at a 150% ticket price increase for their same seats b/w the edge of the infield dirt and the foul pole. that is ridiculous and is a pure money grab to try to sell all of field level to corporations. in doing so they are going to alienate almost a quarter of their season ticket base who this year are paying $4250 per seat (for those of you counting at home that represents over $20m in seat revenue for those field box seats, not to mention concessions and parking from the same people). you can’t raise ticket prices for 11,000 season ticket holders (currently all of field level is sold out) 150% and expect to get away with it. the market won’t support it and you’ve alienated your second largest source of seat revenue (#1 being $500-1000 super premium seats)
So you must be a rich dude then? If you can afford to travel to all these places and afford the tickets to the games. Most of us are lucky to attend one game at one stadium. let alone, 4. It will cost me around $400 in gas parking and tolls just to get to Shea Stadium from Vermont. so. add another $400 on top for tickets and that counts me and my family out. It is very sad because we enjoy a day trip to Shea. Its a nice scenic trip and the parking at the Stadium is great. We have not even attended a game yet this year and with Shea going away, we would like to visit one last time. WIth the sounds of prices at Citi I dont think we will be watching a game live. MLB has gotten out of hand all around. I have to apend $200 bucks to watch the METS up here, and, I cant even choose what feed I want to watch. Most ganes I have to watch on the “other” teams feed. Are they still going to have the silver and gold game stuff at Citi?
i am fortunate enough to be able to afford the tix and was able to check out those other balls parks while visiting friends or business trips. b/c i can afford it doesn’t mean i should or will pay it. i will not pay $125 for a field seat. my $8k this year for 2 seats (split with a bunch of friends) would jump to $20k. i could live with another 20% increase and perhaps as much as 33% given its a new stadium but 150% is laughable. i realize its expensive for people who go to a game or two a year but your situation from out of town is pretty unusual and quite honestly (and no offense) they are not trying to cater to the out of town fan who is only going to one game a year. and the different seating categories etc alone will be confusing enough, lets hope they don’t add another 5 tiers based on opponent but i am sure they will
Here’s a tip. E-Bay. I find nothing but ridiculous steals on ebay. I highly doubt it’ll be any different next season. I’ve been to around 10 games this year and have gotten all tickets in loge or field level, and all for at least 40% off face value and up to 80% off for field box seats. Stub Hub is garbage, not sure how it gained so much popularity, but ebay is THE way to go and I’ll bet anything you’ll find cheaper prices for Citifield next year. Of course if you want to guarantee yourselves X amount of games, yea – gotta go with the packages. But if you just wanna go to a few games with your kids/friends – ebay, ebay, ebay.
Its a good thing we have SNY because those ticket prices are absurd. That makes me not even want to watch baseball.
I am a poor college kid but I will def make every effort to go to Citifield. The park looks beautiful and I think every seat in the house will have a great view. It’ll be alot of fun no matter how bad the damage is. Sadly I actually think I may be in a better position than some families though. Bringing your wife and kids to the game now will cost a pretty penny, not just for seats, but for parking and food. Its bad now, but it’ll be worse. That is disappointing.
Thats kind of my position unfortunately, next year will be my sons first year of being able to go to the park and appreciate it but sadly with these ticket prices its going to be very limiting.
I grew up as a little kid in Cincinnati going to Riverfront Stadium watching The Reds in the 70s and people used to joke about how me and my grandfather never missed a home game. Its sad but those days are gone for anyone who isnt a millionaire but as most people have pointed out, this isnt just a Citi Field problem, this is nationwide.
I lived in Seattle a few years ago and there was a great way to watch cheap games at Safeco and im hoping there is something similar at Shea. We used to buy the cheapest tickets in the place and then go stand in the beer garden at left-center field. I also lived in walking distance so it was a fantastic afternoon.
People will complain about ticket prices, and then simultaneously complain about the team not spending money to get free agents and resign players. The Wilpons have to operate the team as a business. The goal of any business is to “make money” and produce a “quality product.” Doesn’t matter if its Gillette making razor blades or the Mets organization and the team on the field. Same concept. If you want to keep up with the rest of the big market teams, something has to be done to make more money. We constantly rag on the smaller market teams (Kansas City, Pittsburgh, etc.) for not spending money.
I agree that a 150% jump in prices in certain areas is just ludicrous, but I am not going to complain as long as the organization puts the best product on the field. I will probably have to pay $500 for an opening day ticket next year, but I’ll be there.
yup, can’t say you love capitalism and then bitch when it affects your personal bottom line.
i like capitalism. unfortunately we don’t operate in a capitalist economy.
It’ll be painful upfront, but it would be nice to say I was at the first game ever at citi field.
Like it has been said, Supply & Demand. The prices are skyrocketing for next, but we’re probably not going to see significant jumps after that. The Mets want to capitalize on the novelty of the new stadium next, while they (hopefully) have a good product on the field. 10 years from now, once the novelty wears off, and if the team stinks, I’m sure they’ll have deals to keep people in the stadium. But personally, I can live with ridiculous prices, because it means there’s a product ou there that 40,000 people want to see every night. I’ll just go to half the number of games, and get twice as drunk before going in.
AMEN
feed the rich!
How about using it as inspiration to better yourself, get a better paying job, further your education so you can afford to see as many games in person as you’d like?
Nah…..blaming those who work hard to attain financial success and/or lambasting the Wilpons for the price structure just FEELS good, and is soooo much easier.
being able to afford a game, and recognizing whether or not the price point is ridiculous or not is two different things. you make a lot of assumptions when you assert that someone can’t afford to go.
thats pointless gip. no one is blaming anyone for attaining financial success. i can afford much more than i am paying now for a field box, doesn’t mean i should. you rip managment for being poor business managers. unfortunately they keep screwing up. even the process of communicating with season ticket holders has been botched. i had to find out about this new pricing and structure on metsblog.com. no mailing, no mass email (yet i get one for brooklyn cyclones games today) and absolutely no call from my rep (who as of last week had no idea what was happening). and by the way, jeff wilpon didn;t have to work very hard to attain his financial success. he may haveto work hard to keep it but his only qualification to get it was surviving child birth and not being able to review his trust fund statements.
Lifestyles of the rich and the famous…
I know Fred Wilpon grew up in Brooklyn and went to high school with Koufax. I don’t know his entire history, but it seems like he was a man who came from a modest background and worked hard to get where he is today. I don’t understand why people have such distaste for a man who climbed up the food chain by working hard and being successful. His son may be another story, but I am not going to throw digs and hate someone because they have money. Good for them, I hope I am half as successful as Fred Wilpon in my life. Again, this is their business and we just happen to be fans of their team. Get over it everyone. All you complainers should work harder and earn more money.
Very well said, gasface. Envy is an ugly thing.
…thanks. With that said, I must agree with everyone else that I do have a problem with all the Dodger/Giant references. I think the Mets are a franchise with a limited but rich history. That should have been embraced at the new stadium. I mean, the dodgers and giants are still active franchises. So, I refuse to complain about the wealth of the owners, but I will be complaining about the lack of Mets’ history in our new stadium.
it has nothing to do with envy guys, i don’t begrudge anyone their success, doesn’t mean i have to condone bad business. and jsut to stop the inevitable reply…spare me the this is good business b/c someone will pay…in the end they will chase individual fans who spend big money and small-medium businesses who have an attachment to the team. those people are just as important as the huge corporations b/c as customers they are more loyal and spend just as much. have you ever looked at the names on the placards in field level. its not Goldman Sachs and General Electric, its small businesses in queens, small to mid size laws firms and medical practices. when big companies cut back the first thing to go are tickets, perks, etc. many of the local small to medium businesses and individuals with some disposable income have stuck around through good and bad and its bad business to alienate them for the sake of a year or two of higher prices for big corporations
The second they sold the name to the stadium, you had to know where this was going…as mentioned above, it’s about money, not making it an equal-opportunity experience for fans.
No kidding it’s about money. Owning a baseball franchise is not and should not be a non-profit enterprise. if you can’t afford to go, well, that’s the breaks.
What did you expect? The bottom line is sports is a business. People don’t like to hear that, but it’s true. I learned that in a college sports economics class in college. I refused to accept it at first, but that’s just the way it is. Isn’t the point of a business to make as much money as possible? And you do that by putting out a good product and charging a premium price for it. The Mets aren’t in a position to put out a bad product now. But they are going to charge whatever they want to charge to experience that product. The real fans will find a way to get in, even if it’ll be to less games.
At least they will have a picnic area.
I have to chime in on the Dodger nonsense at Citfield. I was born after the Dodgers and Giants left. Sorry Freddie I am a Mets fan. Is there anything at this field that will celebrate the Mets. 1969, 1986? Statues, pictures anything? I don’t get any sense they intend to do anything. I see a giant 42 – where’s the 41? This team has a history. Will their be anything for Seaver, Koss, Tug, Keith, Carter, Mookie, Straw, Piazza? Anytime I ask this question in Shea I get no answer.
Time to build a stadium for the Mets.
the Idea that this place is some tribute to the Dodgers is stupid. Sure, there will be some names, and some facades and tributes to baseball legends and the origins of professional baseball in New York. There will also be the same retired numbers as at Shea, there will be banners for both (all three?) championships. There will be an apple. The theme is the city/citi that the Mets play in, with that bridge motiff that looks great.
There will be more too, they just haven’t decided on it all yet, and there is always time to add more. Shea isn’t quite dead yet, it might still have a little magic in it yet. They can worry about which parts to immortalize in November.
This isn’t a classic case of supply and demand because there will ALWAYS be demand. Every year more and more families get priced out, but tickets are still sold to corporations. I don’t see ticket prices ever really relaxing due to waning “demand” since for the most part corporations will pay whatever is asked, so this doesn’t follow normal economic principles.
Well, there are a lot of corporations taking a beating this year, so not so sure all fo them will be coughing of several hundred thousand right now.
Perhaps, and it certainly plays to their advantage that they play baseball in one of the most populated cities in the world. With a target audience that size there are bound to be a finite number of them willing to pay whatever price.
i really thought that shea is better than citi, call me crazy if you want, but honestly, why build a stadium with 42,000 seats, and green as the color, and ebbets section and the jackie robinson rotundo, heck, they should just change their outfits to green and call themselves the new york dodgers, and how do they expect people to go to citi with the outfield being 75 bucks and the club level thingy 200?!
people that can afford it will go and people that can’t afford it won’t go. i am guessing that the stadium will sell out most, if not every game next year. whether that is through corporations or through individuals, the wilpon’s make money which lets them spend money to improve the team we root for. it’s a business. to think otherwise is not to think at all.
These prices are ridiculous.
And before I hear the tired garbage that ‘they can charge what they want”, let’s not forget that this stadium was built with over $170 million in public funds and they got TAX FREE bonds to finance the stadium.
In fact the Mets are currently seeking more tax-free financing for construction costs, while planning on charging people a minimum of $75 a ticket to sit anywhere but the upper deck.
Wow, Cactus, you’re actually sane. The “free-marketeers” on this blog have the delusion that the average individual can compete for tickets verses multi-billion-dollar corporations. Their delusion is coupled with a lack of empathy for the average human being. Their vision is shortsighted, too: How is a new fan base developed when kids can’t enter a ballpark? Wilpon’s Folly is cruel and unusual—a bizarre assumption that Queens needs a tribute stadium for a dead Brooklyn team (pity the old NY Giants!) with a Midwest-designed capacity. It denigrate NYC baseball—it’s a shopping mall with eateries that just happens to contain a ball field that’ll have all the passion of a game at san Diego. I won’t bore you you to death with tales of my first impressions of Shea in June of 1970; I will tell you the top ticket then was $4. I will also tell you that I have Saturday and Sunday Plans this year and hit a sundry 10 games in addition: about 36 games at Shea for about $600. I CAN afford season tickets at Wilpon’s Folly; however, I will choose not to.
I agree with the Logo, I is really bad! How long did it take and how much money did someone get paid to come up with that? They must of been eating Domino’s for lunch!! Also, I don’t like the green seats. why not the navy blue that a lot of the new parks have. The Mets logo on the green seat looks off. Maybe, I am nit picking here. Anyway, it is going to be great can’t wait!
Are the seven packs completely gone at Citfield?